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The new icon is GORGEOUS!
But... *nitpick*

It doesn't show up in the titlebar.

Well, the Script class has an AutoCompleteData property, which stores all the information that autocomplete has cached about the script. I guess it depends whether the information you need is the same as that, or not.

Wow, that's very handy, thanks.
Is there something similar for AGS' built-in stuff?

Well obviously you can work around it (I do use black a lot so I usually just import with unused transparent space and have AGS crop it to fit) but it'd be nice if you didn't have to.

Speaking of transparency options, I've always wondered: why isn't there an option to import sprites without transparency?

Is there any way I can get some kind of AGS script reference (objects/functions/properties/enums/etc.) in some easy-to-process format? (text/xml/etc.)

I was writing my own from scratch for my Simple Script plugin but then noticed AGS.Types seems to have a lot of classes for this kind of stuff so I was wondering if I could avoid all this extra work.

If it's supposed to be Quick, maybe it'd be better adding a Preferences option for the Quick Import methods.

[evArgs.Component]

can't seem to get that right. I added an event handler for BeforeShowContextMenu that tries to add a menu with: _editor.GUIController.CreateMenuCommand(evArgs.Component, CONTROL_ID_CONTEXT_MENU_OPTION, "Simple edit");
Which does... nothing.

You need to create the command with CreateMenuCommand, but then add it to the Commands collection in the EventArgs, as smiley has demonstrated.

try this:

MenuCommand mc = _editor.GUIController.CreateMenuCommand(evArgs.Component, CONTROL_ID_CONTEXT_MENU_OPTION, "Simple edit");
evArgs.MenuCommands.Commands.Add(mc);

Be careful here! The component that you supply to CreateMenuCommand will be the component that gets notified when the command is clicked. Thus, for adding your own commands you need to pass your component rather than the one that created the menu.

So the code you might want could be this:

Code: ags

MenuCommand mc = _editor.GUIController.CreateMenuCommand(this, CONTROL_ID_CONTEXT_MENU_OPTION, "Simple edit");
evArgs.MenuCommands.Commands.Add(mc);

depending on which class that code is in.

Thanks.

Some other issues with the plugin API:
- Room scripts don't seem to be reachable through the Scripts class. Doing something like "_editor.CurrentGame.Scripts.GetScriptByFilename("room1.asc")" will bring up an exception.
- Games saved with plugins will bring up warnings if those plugins aren't found, even if said plugins don't save any custom data.

* Editor plugin API new event BeforeShowContextMenu on the ProjectTree to allow you to intercept context menus and add extra items to them (you must create any extra items using GUIController.CreateMenuCommand method)

I can't seem to get that right. I added an event handler for BeforeShowContextMenu that tries to add a menu with: _editor.GUIController.CreateMenuCommand(evArgs.Component, CONTROL_ID_CONTEXT_MENU_OPTION, "Simple edit");
Which does... nothing. I also tried using AddMenu but that just ends up adding an option to the Editor's main menu. Clearly I'm clueless.

And since we've reached RC stage, I think it's time I get picky. The new AGS Editor icon looks awful on my desktop. The old one went up to 48x48px. The new one doesn't. It makes me sad. Why, Chris, why?!?

Usually VM machines have a setting to "lock" or "integrate" the mouse pointer which can mess up some games. Try disabling it and see if it fixes it.

What exactly does this NET Framework do? I installed it to be able to use the new AGS version and I understand that a framework is programming-related- so what other use has this framework?

It's basically just a bunch of DLLs that all .NET applications (usually coded in C#) need.

Very nice. Though I have a question. Is there a way to edit the built-in context menus? Currently my simple script editor uses as OpenDialog for the user to select the script he wants to edit. I was thinking if I could have my plugin add a new option to the right-click menu for scripts to open up the respective script in the Simple Script Editor, it'd be a lot simpler for the user.

Here's a WIP of what I currently have:

TCP/IP support can also lead to very nasty things if not watched carefully though, I think having it as a plugin is better.

Very nice work. We all know how every game developer tends to be a bit lazy about implementing standards, but we're even lazier at removing the default stuff so this will help out a lot.

The Restart GUI should also provide a starting point for anyone looking to make their custom Confirm dialogs.

EDIT - Had a thought, let me know - pre-script mouse wheel to change modes (most people who use the mouse wheel will use it for that), and the middle button for making the player WALK to the destination - Wretched did that in some game, using the middle button as a shortcut for using WALK, and I can't tell you how much I wished everyone else did that.

So, ok if I include these two? I mean, the keyboard movement module is already in...

EDIT 2 - Ok, then, guess not. Right, here it goes then - http://rapidshare.com/files/64742163/Default_Game_2_3.agt.html

I like the mouse wheel idea. Maybe thrown in a Restart button in the Control Panel as well.

Well using pre-made templates is the first step towards laziness though nice job. Maybe you should do the 3.0 default template too.

Actually no, the AGSGame file type is no longer supported (AGS 3.0+). Also I've tried setting up a file association with the AGS 3.0 editor, but I have thus far found it impossible to do so. I'm familiar with file associations, but as far as I can tell you can't assign one for the way the editor currently expects the command line argument.

Sorry, I meant the new AGF type, which works fine for me.

* Added ability to start editor loading specific game from the command line (this will be tied into a registry association in an installer in a later release); and added /compile switch to load, compile game and exit

You could have explained what the command line argument for loading a specific game was...

(...)

Also I wanted to ask: Could shortcuts automatically be created in the game folder (perhaps optionally by an editor preference)? You said that this will later be tied into a registry association...does this mean that we will see the emergence of an 'AGSGame' type file which will be associated with this command line loading? Either way it would be much appreciated.

As complicated as Pumaman made it sound, it just means that you can now associate AGS with AGSGame files. Try dragging one of them onto AGSEditor.exe. Or to associate them yourself, try opening one of them and tell Windows to open them with AGSEditor.exe (in the future, an installer will do this for you)

And now you know the behind-the-scenes workings of file associations!

Yep, it only happens with the DX5 driver on 320x200 full-screen, maybe it's a hardware-specific thing. I'm running Windows Vista with a Radeon X1650 Pro. I put my game here if it helps.

I downloaded this and tried it out, and it seemed to work fine. Are you using beta 13? Can you try uploading the compiled EXE, in case something has been compiled differently?

http://supsuper.wurmz.net/stuff/Compiled.zip

Exactly. Though I just noticed AGS switches to 640x480 when I try to run on 320x200 (although it looks different from actually running on 640x480), so maybe it's a side-effect of that? It only happens on fade-outs, too. Here's a screenshot.

Hmm, I still can't reproduce this. Does it only happen with the DX5 driver? Would it be possible to upload a sample of this problem for me to take a look at?

Yep, it only happens with the DX5 driver on 320x200 full-screen, maybe it's a hardware-specific thing. I'm running Windows Vista with a Radeon X1650 Pro. I put my game here if it helps.

I get the same error, although the DLL still builds fine:

Error   1   The command "copy D:\SupFiles\Visual Studio Projects\AGS.Plugin.Sample\bin\Release\AGS.Plugin.Sample.dll D:\SupFiles\Visual Studio Projects\AGS.Plugin.Sample\netedit\bin\Debug" exited with code 1.   AGS.Plugin.Sample

Nice work, always been a fan of C#.
Well I'm planning on writing a simpler script editor, so I suppose access to scripts and any game script-o-names (for objects, characters, dialogs, etc.)

Someone might knock up some kind of awesome dialog editor too.